Jerome Rothenberg on Stein’s “A Shawl”
When Jerome last visited the Writers House, we sat down with him to talk about Gertrude Stein’s “A Shawl.” We’ve now added that video to ModPoPLUS week 4 among the Gertrude Stein resources. Here...
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Rosmarie Waldrop on Stein’s “exact resemblance”
We are adding a new video to ModPoPLUS week 4. In it we discuss Rosmarie Waldrop’s poem about Stein’s idea of “exact resemblance,” a concept we will recall from Stein’s portrait of Picasso. The...
ModPo update for Friday, October 4, 2019
Friday dawns here in Philly as we begin to wrap up week 4 of ModPo 2019. While many folks are continuing to read Stein and other poems in the main syllabus, and watch our...
ModPo update for Thursday of week 4 (October 3, 2019)
Here we are—Thursday of week 4 of ModPo 2019. Have you had a chance to watch Bob Perelman’s brilliant explanation of Gertrude Stein’s occasional use of the continuous present tense? No? Well, here is...
ModPo update for Monday of week 4 (September 30th, 2019)
Week 4 is truly underway! Lots of good conversation about Gertrude Stein is happening in our forum. Even if you’ve been shy about entering our discussion forum, maybe now is the time to check...
ModPo update as week 4 begins (9/29/2019)
We are now beginning week 4 of ModPo 2019! The main ModPo syllabus for week 4 is divided into two parts. The much larger first part is about Gertrude Stein’s writing. The smaller second...
Philip Metres’s “The Blues of Ken Davis” now added to ModPoPLUS week 5
Just now added to ModPoPLUS week 5, chapter 4—Philip Metres‘s poem “The Ballad of Ken Davis.” The text is here below and the video is here: https://media.sas.upenn.edu/app/public/watch.php?file_id=225683
Marcel Duchamp’s notes (discussion with Marjorie Perloff & others)
Marcel Duchamp’s miscellaneous notes were included in the conceptualist anthology called Against Expression. HERE is a copy of the text. HERE is a video recording of a discussion about these notes with Marjorie Perloff, Danny...
CCCR video in which Max leads a discussion of Stein in Chicago
We have added to the CCCR* syllabus a discussion led by Max McKenna with some ModPo’ers in Chicago (October 2018) about stanza 2 of Gertrude Stein’s “Stanzas in Meditation.” Here are the links as...
Collaborative close reading of Stein’s “A Table”
ModPo is all about encouraging people worldwide to collaborate on close readings of poems. Here’s the newest addition to the CCCR (=Community Collaborative Close Readings syllabus)—a discussion of Gertrude Stein’s “A Table”: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/r0Zp9